Sharp County record., 1887-03-17
TOPICS OF THE DAY
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

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duties at the Treasury Department.
THE President has approved the Military
Academy Appropriation bill, the regular
Pension Appropriation bill, the act TO or
ganize the hospital relief corps OF the
United States and the act in regard to the
importation of mackerel during the spawn
ing season.
THE Austrian court is making elaborate
preparations to celebrate the nineuetf
birthday of the Emperor of Germany.
On the I'd the New Jersey Legislature
succeeded in electing United States
Senator. Rufus Blodgett, Democrat, was
elected by the votes of the Republicans
together with anti-Abbett Democrats.
On the Goth the remains of Edward
Kuehl, found dead in bed at Omaha, Neb.,
were sent to Buffalo. N Y, in accordance
with his will, to be cremated. His ashes
are to be placed in an urn and placed over
the bar of popular saloon in Omaha, II
compliance with his will
President CLEVELAND has recognize
Denis DonahOe as Consul OF her Britannia
Majesty for the States of California, Ore
gon and Nevada. and for the Territories OF
Washington, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona, tC
reside at San Francisco and Francis L..
Grave, Consul of Her Britannia Majesty
for the States of Maryland, Virginia
West Virginia and Kentucky, to reside al
Baltimore
ROBERT G.. INGERSOLL is said to be re-
covering from his throat affection, which
it was thought would prove fatal.
MRS. RUTH HARMON, maternal grand
mother of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, is very
i'll at her home in Jackson, Mich.
THE final passage of the Canadian Re-
talation bill by Congress took the Lon
don papers and public officials by sur
prise
MRS. WARD, who was recently shot by
her husband, the Englewood IN. J.) per-
son, has made a statement Of how the
shooting was done. 1t seems there had
been Quarrel.
An extended report was submitted to
Congress on the Sd by the Curtin select
committee, which was appointed to inves-
tigate the railroad strikes in the West.
They do not lay all the blame on the
strikers.
On the 81 the bill authorizing the con-
struction of new bridge at Kansas City,
Mo-, was passed by the Senate and has
been approved by the President. The
President signed the bill giving the
Chicago, Rock Island q Pacific railroad
right of way through the Indian Terri
tory.
SECRETARY EyDICoTT has approved the
recommendation of the chief of engineers
Udf5 Jridg0 over the 14rthSetR the "a &1ftrimere q
mitted, provided the requirements Of the
rule of the department of July 81, 1886, be
complied with.
On the night of the I'd +, o. Thomas,
who has been running shirt factory and
doing good business in Cedar Rapids,
Ia, for the past month, left for St Paul.
Previous to going and after banking hours,
Thomas secured money on forged drafts
When the discovery was made on the 3D.
of the forgery, further revelations fol-
lowed which showed him to have
"worked" his friends quito systematic
ally.
IT is learned upon most trustworthy au-
thority that the President intends to ap-
point Mr. Oscar S. Strauss, of New York,
to the vacant Turkish mission. Congress
man Tucker, it is understood, was offered
and declined the appointment Mr.. Strauss
is wealthy Hebrew of New York. about
forty-five years old.
OK the 81 the fact quietly leaked out at
Buffalo, n. Y, that Miss Margaret Math-
er, the famous theatrical star, had been
secretly married, the ceremony being per-
formed in that city about two weeks pre-
viously Mr.. Emil Habercorn, leader OF
the orchestra of the Union Square Thea
ter, New York, is the happy groom.
REV. PETER BECKx, Superior General
of the order of Jesuits, died at Rome on
the 4th.
GOVERNOR HILL has removed General
Shaler from office in the Health Depart
ment of New York City.
THE relatives of Lieutenant Governor
Mcdonald of Michigan have been looking
for him for thirty-nine years and have
Just learned his whereabouts.
MRS. JAMES BRowN-PoTTER is at last an
actress ''by profession" On the 4th she
signed contract to fill an engagement at
the Haymarket Theatre, London.
No one welcomes the adjournment Of
Congress more than Mrs. Cleveland, as
she is completely tired out from her re-
cent onerous social duties, and wants
few weeks of undisturbed rest
1T is said at the White House that there
is no probability of special session of
the Senate being called by the President
for the purpose of acting on nominations
or for any other purpose.
THE death-roll of the Forty-ninth Con-
gress was an extraordinary one, compfis-
ing the unprecedented number of thirteen
names in the House and Senate They
are those of President Hendricks,
president of the Senate; Senators Miller,
of California; Pike, of New Hamp-
shire, and Logan, of Illinois; and Repre-
sentatives Hahn, of Louisiana: Arnot,
Beach and Dowdney, of New York; Price,
of Wisconsin; Cole, of Maryland; Elwood,
of Illinois; Duncan, of Pennsylvania, and
Rankin, of Wisconsin.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN +. BREITUNG, of
Negaunee, Mich, died at Eastman, Ga, at
midnight of the Sd, of pneumonia. Mr..
Breitung was pioneer of the upper pen
insula, where he lived the past twenty
wears, representing his district in the
Forty eighth Congress. His possessions
were estimated at from S5,0,0,000 to 81
900, coo, all of which was made out of iron
lands. He leaves a widow and sixteen
year-old son.
MOTHER ANGELA died at st. Marys
Academy, South Bend, Ind, on the 4th.
She was closely related by kinship to
General Thomas Ewing, General Sherman
and James G. Blaine, and was famous for |
lsr charitable life in connection with the |
Order of Sisters of the Holy Cross